Homebrew PCBs

Does anyone here work for a component supplier?

All this talk of people building their homebrew CNC rigs!

(I'm also working on my own CNC mill presently)

All this gave me an idea - there'd be an opportunity for a component
supplier (or related merchant) to launch a competition, with the aim of
getting positive company exposure and goodwill:

 - design the cheapest reliable CNC rig

rules:
 - design must work
 - all parts must be bought new, and available on the net from existing
   merchants, and anly merchants who are willing to ship to anywhere in
   the civilised world
 - must not require any unduly specialised tools to build
 - must be well documented
 - must be capable of being assembled and commissioned in less than
   approx 20 hours, by someone reasonably competent (subjective judging
   needed here)

winner is the design that meets the above criteria for the lowest parts
cost (not including shipping cost), in US$

Any takers?

-- 
Cheers
David

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 08:50:54 +0200, David McNab <david@...>  
wrote:

> Does anyone here work for a component supplier?
> All this talk of people building their homebrew CNC rigs!
> (I'm also working on my own CNC mill presently)
> All this gave me an idea - there'd be an opportunity for a component
> supplier (or related merchant) to launch a competition, with the aim of
> getting positive company exposure and goodwill:
> - design the cheapest reliable CNC rig
> rules:
>  - design must work
>  - all parts must be bought new, and available on the net from existing
>    merchants, and anly merchants who are willing to ship to anywhere in
>    the civilised world
>  - must not require any unduly specialised tools to build
>  - must be well documented
>  - must be capable of being assembled and commissioned in less than
>    approx 20 hours, by someone reasonably competent (subjective judging
>    needed here)
> winner is the design that meets the above criteria for the lowest parts
> cost (not including shipping cost), in US$
> Any takers?
>


Has been tried before. Not sure what came of it. see archives.

ST